Bacteriophage Treatment Rescues Mice Infected with Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST258

Infections caused by multidrug-resistant K. pneumoniae pose a serious threat to at-risk patients and present a therapeutic challenge for clinicians. Bacteriophage (phage) therapy is an alternative treatment approach that has been associated with positive clinical outcomes when administered experimentally to patients with refractory bacterial infections.